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" I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. "
Lois Lowry
Adult
Literature
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" I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone. "
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" I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known. "
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" This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids. "
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" Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. "
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" I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. "
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Fantasy
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" It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years. "
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Now
Ending
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" Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book. "
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Disappointed
Past
Different
" People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. "
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Memoirs
People
Lie
" Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. "
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" There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them. "
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" I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books. "
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Reading
Grandchildren
Age
" I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them. "
Lois Lowry
Think
Writing
Truth
" We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity. "
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Moral
Live
Like
" In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. "
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Seeing
Writing
Am
" I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write. "
Lois Lowry
Looking
Political
Mind
" I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering. "
Lois Lowry
Waiting
People
Yourself
" One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later. "
Lois Lowry
Hope
Thinking
Think
" Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them. "
Lois Lowry
Homework
You
School
" Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child. "
Lois Lowry
Mother
Children
Child
" I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate. "
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Story
Place
People
" Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. "
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Book
Get
Because
" Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. "
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Write
Down
Know
" People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. "
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First
Giver
Know
" In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation. "
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Generation
Book
Army
" I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. "
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Person
Heavy
" When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. "
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Me
Showing Up
Books
" I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams. "
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Always
Own
Memory
" Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much. "
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Think
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Age
" The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me. "
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Me
Surprise
Two
" People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons. "
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Out
Reasons
Most